2 Samuel 22:26-28 With the merciful you show yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless; 27 with the purified you deal purely, and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.28 You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
I sometimes hear people say that God is mean, unfair, vindictive, and judgmental. How dare he tell us not to judge others when he is so free to judge anyone he pleases and without apparent reason.
Well, for one we misunderstand who God is and who we are. God is pure good. He is so pure that anything that is not good cannot withstand his goodness. For anyone who is not pure it would be like walking unshielded into the middle of a nuclear reactor. You could not hope to survive. But through the washing of the blood of Jesus Christ, who died for all of our impurities, we become like a nuclear reaction ourselves - we become like God.
In the process from a human stand point we are transformed into his image and we actually begin to think like him - to have his character.
God appears differently to different people because to those who belong to him and have his character and act like he acts his purity makes sense. But for those who do not belong to him they experience his repulsion against evil as a foreign entity.
And look also at the character traits: mercy, purity, and humbleness. Gives you a clue what God is like, huh?
Pastor Tom
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